Medal of Honor
June 9, 1862
Port Republic, Virginia, USA
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
- Unit or command
- Company B, 5th Ohio Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓Mounted an artillery horse of the enemy and captured a brass 6-pound piece in the face of the enemy's fire and brought it to the rear.
Separately preserved current-source wording
Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.
Mounted an artillery horse of the enemy and captured a brass six-pound piece in the face of the enemy's fire and brought it to the rear.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- John Gray — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-27
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000785
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-27
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Musician
- Entered service at
- Hamilton County, Ohio
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 2448bdcf2598ab054c97f78b342ebfdfe921e0d78a97052fea7685922634e93f
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
Current Society evidence confirms the identity and action record. The rendered citation spells out six-pound where the inherited citation uses 6-pound; both full texts and hashes remain preserved.